Practice, Research, and Cognition in Devised Performance (Hardcover)

Hardcover. This interdisciplinary study explores devised performance and practice research at the intersection of the cognitive sciences and arts. It interrogates relationships between epistemology and cognition, action and aesthetics, and first-person experience and third-person investigation. Pairing practice research methodologies from theatre and performance with cognitive and neuroscientific approachesboth theoretical and empiricalit reveals new insights into the practices of collective creation in theatre. To foreground the insider knowledge inherent to practice research, the main case studies are works created and performed by Maiya Murphys international movement-based devising collective, Autopoetics. Autopoetics work is contextualized in reference to major international devising companies, dance companies, and interdisciplinary research projects including Complicite, Frantic Assembly, Forced Entertainment, Tectonic Theater Project, The Necessary Stage, Company Wayne McGregor, Australian Dance Theatre, Choreography and Cognition, Motion Bank and Watching Dance: Kinesthetic Empathy. Practice, Research, and Cognition in Devised Performance proposes a model for breaking down disciplinary silos to freshly access the processes of collaborative practice and invigorate research in the humanities and arts. This interdisciplinary study explores devised performance and practice research at the intersection of the cognitive sciences and arts. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …